Spiritual & Philosophical wisdom

Discussion in 'Philosophy and Religion' started by Deidre, May 8, 2018.

  1. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    And yet, you know, all are making for the same goal, all are striving in the same direction anyway, from the sage to the lowest robber, only by different paths. This is an old truth, but what is new here is
    this: I cannot get very confused. Because I saw the truth, I saw and I know that
    people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will
    not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
     
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  2. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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  3. @Meliai

    Reading some Dostojevski?
     
  4. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    I listened to The Dream of a Ridiculous Man on audiobook today at work, i've read it before...forgot how intense it was, too many feels for the workplace lol
    I was in an office in the US but my soul vas in Russia
     
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  5. Welcome, my sister.
    We have been waiting.

     
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  6. McFuddy

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    Such a dour people.
     
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  7. Here's some food for the soul

     
  8. McFuddy

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    Lol he's not even playing it! Good tune though.
     
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  9. guerillabedlam

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    That's a powerful statement. I find just regurgitating really smart people's ideas can even be alienating.
     
  10. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    Yes
    I dont want to say anything else for fear it will sound like i'm bragging about my intelligence :p
    But yeah.
     
  11. McFuddy

    McFuddy Visitor

    You expertly side stepped many potential landmines here.

    Well played, mellymcmelerson, well played indeed.
     
  12. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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    Lies. All lies.
     
  13. Meliai

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    Hahah i do what I can
     
  14. guerillabedlam

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    What's ripped us apart even more than drugs
    Are the thieves and the goddamn liars

    -Jello Biafra
     
  15. Ajay0

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    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” - Mahatma Gandhi

    The imbalance in the human system is due to the limited nature of the senses and the unlimited nature of the desires. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
     
  16. Total Darkness

    Total Darkness 100% Cocoa

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    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    One who has seen his true nature no longer regards life as being full of menace and misery as most people do. His previously mistaken sense of personal volition and responsibility has disappeared in such freedom and joy that life is now just an amusing spectacle like a game or a dream, in which he has no real part. - Ramesh Balsekar
     
  17. Ged

    Ged Tits and Thigh Man.

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    "Instead of writing poetry, poets should draw symbols capable of expressing love". - Jean Cocteau.
     
  18. Deidre

    Deidre Follow thy heart

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    I sought the Lord and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. - Proverbs 34:4
     
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    Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, destructive. ~ Eckhart Tolle


    When scientific or rational thinking is grounded in presence it has a completely different outcome. It can never be monstrous. ~ Jean Klein
     

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